The Personal Correspondence Of Sam Houston 1839 1845

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410008

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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1839-1845 by Sam Houston Pdf

Volume II of Sam Houston?s personal correpondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins March 6, 1846, as Houston leaves Texas to take his place in the U. S. Senate. Included in his letters are comments on national politics and life in Washington, D. C., descriptions of politicians and their wives, and his observations on generals of the Mexican War. New information sheds light on his feelings towards being a candidate for the presidency. Family letters give a picture of life on Texas plantations during the mid-1800s. The letters end August 10, 1848, after problems with Oregon have begun and the Mexican War has ended.

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Governors
ISBN : 1574417665

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1848-1852 by Sam Houston Pdf

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410849

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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1852-1863 by Sam Houston Pdf

Publisher Fact Sheet The long awaited final volume in the set Volume IV of this series brings to a close nearly ten years of research & publication of Sam Houston's correspondence. Includes a comprehensive index of all four volumes.

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410318

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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1846-1848 by Sam Houston Pdf

Volume II of Sam Houston's personal correspondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston, covering the time 1846 to 1848. "Writing to people he knew and assuming confidentiality, Houston was unrestrained in his candor in discussing affairs of state and other aspects of his life and career. . . . "--AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN.

Author : Madge Thornall Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Governors
ISBN : OCLC:488796796

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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston by Madge Thornall Roberts Pdf

Author : Robert Tinkler
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807129364

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James Hamilton of South Carolina by Robert Tinkler Pdf

An esteemed planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton (1786--1857) so declined in reputation during the last twenty years of his life that his home state refused to acknowledge him when he died. Robert Tinkler's superb, first-published biography of Hamilton conveys the enormous drama, dignity, and pathos that marked Hamilton's pursuit of the greatness achieved by his prominent Revolutionary-era forebears and his subsequent profound reversal brought on by debt. While a member of Congress during the 1820s, Hamilton came to champion states' interests over a strong central national government. As governor of South Carolina, 1830--1832, he reached the pinnacle of his political and social glory when he presided over the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Hamilton's undoing began with a series of ill-advised cotton speculations that left him deeply and very publicly in arrears by 1839. He desperately sought relief -- even supporting the Compromise of 1850 in hopes of monetary benefit, while alienating his old allies in the process. To his fellow southerners, Hamilton became a scourge and embarrassment as one who compromised his political beliefs because of fiscal distress. Perhaps even more than his political apostasy, Hamilton's unforgivable offense may have been to remind planters of their own struggles with chronic debt. Tinkler's extraordinary research into both Hamilton's life and the dynamics of reputation and debt in the antebellum South suggests that many contemporaries simply wished to forget Hamilton's plight so as to avoid facing their own financial reality. Possessing the weight of tragedy, James Hamilton of South Carolina documents a powerful man's achievements and the events and personal flaws that led to his fall.

Author : Sandra Lord and Debe Branning
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467141307

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Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park by Sandra Lord and Debe Branning Pdf

Visitors to Market Square Park can pause on their stroll through the downtown centerpiece for a palpable experience of its past. Houston's first four city halls laid their foundations here, and relics of the square's heritage remain embedded in the sidewalks of the park. Chalk up a chance sneeze on Milam Street to the final ghostly gasp of dust from Robert Boyce's sawpits. Step from Congress Street into La Carafe, Houston's oldest commercial building, for the kind of atmosphere that even deceased bartenders are reluctant to leave. From the phantom tailors above Treebeard's to the forgotten mysteries of the town's founding, Sandra Lord and Debe Branning resurrect the history humming through the four blocks surrounding Market Square Park.

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Governors
ISBN : 1574410008

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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1852-1863 by Sam Houston Pdf

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292767461

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The City in Texas by David G. McComb Pdf

"This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author has developed new concepts like 'the first road frontier' and the 'rupture' caused by the railroads. McComb emphasizes how railroads and related innovations such as the telegraph and the clock facilitated in urban development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781574412352

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Savage Frontier Volume 1 by Stephen L. Moore Pdf

Annotation This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers. Stephen L. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San Jacinto and later battles at Parker's Fort, the Elm Creck Fight, Post Oak Springs Massacre, and the Stone Houses Fight. Of particular interest to the reader will be the various rosters of the companies, which are found throughout the book. The first edition was previously published by Republic of Texas Press in paperback only; it has now been reprinted in hardcover and paperback.

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781574412055

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Savage Frontier Volume 2 by Stephen L. Moore Pdf

This second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839.

Author : Charles M. Robinson, III
Publisher : Random House
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375505355

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The Men Who Wear the Star by Charles M. Robinson, III Pdf

Here is the first full telling of the most colorful and famous law enforcers of our time. For years, the Texas Rangers have been historical figures shrouded in myth. Charles M. Robinson III has sifted through the tall tales to reach the heart of this storied organization. The Men Who Wear the Star details the history of the Rangers, from their beginnings, spurred by Stephen Austin, and their formal organization in 1835, to the gangster era with Bonnie and Clyde, and on through to modern times. Filled with memorable characters, it is energetic and fast-paced, making this the definitive record of the exploits and accomplishments of the Texas Rangers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : UCD:31175022509551

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Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015023733044

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Contemporary Authors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Organization of American historians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 00218723

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The Journal of American History by Organization of American historians Pdf